I just added a second harddrive to my G4/400 tower. The original harddrive is a 10GB Maxtor drive. The 2nd drive is an 80GB Seagate Barracuda, which I divided into 3 partitions (I took off the jumper to set it as a slave). I installed OSX on the new drive and everything seems to work fine, except there is a problem with putting the machine to sleep. When you put it to sleep, the original hard drive and the monitor will sleep, but the new drive will not spin down, so the light on the front of the tower stays on (doesn't "pulse"). Any ideas on how to solve this? I love being able to put the machine to sleep rather than shutting it down all the way
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Harddrive won't sleep
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Is your new drive a SCSI hard disc?
My external Hard disc, connected via an Adaptec SCSI card wouldn't allow my machine to sleep because the old Adaptec drivers didn't support it. The newer drivers for my card now do. If your drive is SCSI, check to make sure your SCSI card has drivers which support deep sleep in OSX.
My external Hard disc, connected via an Adaptec SCSI card wouldn't allow my machine to sleep because the old Adaptec drivers didn't support it. The newer drivers for my card now do. If your drive is SCSI, check to make sure your SCSI card has drivers which support deep sleep in OSX.
Hi,
I did use Apple's Disk Utility to format and partition the drive. I also sent in an email to Seagate's tech support so I want to wait to see if they say anything different before I start pulling the hard drives out and messing with the jumpers. I'm a little hesitant to start messing with the jumpers on the original harddrive for fear of disabling the entire system (and since the configuration on those jumpers doesn't appear to be the same as the Seagate Drive). I'm not much of a "hardware guy", so the whole jumper thing is new territory.
Thanks for the reply.
I did use Apple's Disk Utility to format and partition the drive. I also sent in an email to Seagate's tech support so I want to wait to see if they say anything different before I start pulling the hard drives out and messing with the jumpers. I'm a little hesitant to start messing with the jumpers on the original harddrive for fear of disabling the entire system (and since the configuration on those jumpers doesn't appear to be the same as the Seagate Drive). I'm not much of a "hardware guy", so the whole jumper thing is new territory.
Thanks for the reply.